Tagged: Sandy Hook Elementary School

WASHINGTON — The number of sex offences reported at American colleges and universities went up in the last decade even as overall campus crime decreased, according to an Education Department survey that also suggests high schools are safer than they used to be.

LEESBURG, Va. — The safest – or scariest — soirée in American suburbia kicks off each Wednesday evening around six-thirty, when the pistol-packin' mamas and papas of Northern Virginia do-si-do to a cozy restaurant for a merry feast of gumbo and guns.

WASHINGTON — A report on the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre in Connecticut last December has failed to pinpoint a motive other than to identify shooter Adam Lanza, 20, as a person who suffered from significant mental health problems and was obsessed with stories of school massacres.

By Pat Eaton-Robb
A group of children from Newtown, Conn. who recently recorded a version of Over the Rainbow are preparing for a live appearance during the E! Network's Grammy Awards pre-show on Sunday.

An ad from the maker of the gun used by killer Adam Lanza in Newtown, Conn., has gained some notoriety on the Internet, and is getting another boost now that the kids from Sandy Hook Elementary are going back to school almost three weeks after the shooting that killed 20 of their young classmates and six staff members.

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Newtown's children were showered with gifts Saturday -- tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, soccer balls and board games -- and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in mourning.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots silenced their "End Zone Militia" on Sunday night, taking the muskets away from the Revolutionary War re-enactors who fire into the air to celebrate every score.